This will come as a shock to some of you. This entry will not feature any song titles or references to music and really won't follow much of a theme. I just thought it would be nice to share some thoughts about the fall season.

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Hard to believe we're almost a month into the fall sports season. And it certainly feels like we're in mid-season form. We've now been able to add Live Stats to football and soccer home games thanks to the new wireless network on campus. We did a lot of testing this weekend, and I know from comments submitted by a few people who helped in the testing that everything worked very well. Thanks, Brad Weaver, and the rest of the IT department for all of your hard work over the year to make these thing happen.

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Speaking of the web, I get a lot of comments from Wabash fans about how much they like our web site. A lot of that thanks should go to the unsung hero of the Wabash web, Mark Siegel. Mark is our programmer and makes all of the pieces of the web site work. The popup pages that now appear on the fall roster pages? That's all Mark's programming. I'm always thrilled to hear comments and thoughts as to how we can make the site better, so keep those coming. I also want to thank those behind-the-scenes people who help make it so good.

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Speaking of behind the scenes, an additional amount of material on the web and in print happens because of some outstanding student-workers in my office. Josh Vaughan put all of the player bios together in about four days, sifting through 175 questionnaires to place all of that info on the web. Home soccer matches can't run efficiently if we didn't have Bryan Reeder, Austin Faulkner, Bogdan Stancu, Curt Peterson, and Bobby Wade and the rest of the guys at the table. The list of workers at football games is to numerous to mention here, but I will try to tell their story later this year. All those stats, the play clock, and those programs you all gobbled up this weekend (my program sales budget thanks you!) are all handled by Wabash students, and are handled as efficiently and professionally as any adult group I've seen working at Division I schools. If fact, my crew corrected me on two yard line spots in the Franklin game. And I'm supposed to be the professional (my excuse is I had other items going on at the time, but it's a pretty flimsy excuse).

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How about that Wabash cross country team! Two first place finishes out of three races this year. Roger Busch and a small but might Red Pack are sending a notice that they refuse to be a middle-of-the-pack team in any race.

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Even though we're very early in the fall season, the winter sports are starting practices. Swimming always gets things underway with their fall lessons program. It was another successful year for the program now led by John Weitz and Kyle Dunaway (not to mention a great group of swimmers who really enjoy working with all of the young kids who participate in the program).

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A final word - thank you to everyone who has had such nice comments, emails, and notes (I received two copies of Jim Amidon's column along with cards in the mail last week) regarding my recent award. It is nice to see one's work appreciated, but that's not why I do what I do. I do it because it's a lot of fun, and the stories I get to tell are so remarkable. So thank you all for your kind words, but we know return you to regularly scheduled programming.......